Comments on: A look at the Washington Post’s take on the space war

By: Kelly Starks

Kelly Starks — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:07:08 +0000

>…If instead he had said we are going to build Pete Wordon`s True Space Ship to go to the Moon and Mars…

Assuming they ever heard of Pete Wordon and could even guess what a “True Space Ship” would be.

I think Griffen’s insistence that the only way you could do anything beyond LEO is with a HLV kind of locked out anything else. Congress does seem to want to get NASA out donig something, adn sadly trusted Griffin’s edict that only HLV’s can do that.

By: Gary Warburton

Gary Warburton — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:57:11 +0000

I think his big mistake was trying to appease them with the promise of a HLV. He just set himself up for WHEN, WHERE, WHAT. If instead he had said we are going to build Pete Wordon`s True Space Ship to go to the Moon and Mars and we are going to get him and a teem to start designing it right now. It would have been a different story.

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:47:27 +0000

No doubt that the Obama administration did not put up a fight that equaled the opposition. They may have been naive as to how much their proposed changes affected key districts or interests, and felt the merits of what they were proposing would win over.

I think the biggest problem that they didn’t anticipate was that with the Shuttle program already coming to an end, and with the Constellation money becoming freed up, there had to be a political fight for redistribution of the money. And if politicians do anything well, it’s fight for money.

In light of that, I don’t know if there would have been anything the administration could have done to prevent a huge fight, but they certainly could have done a better job in affecting the outcome.